^10 (A)Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

^16 (A)Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

⁹ And the Lord said, ^(A)“Call his name Not My People,^[a] for ^(B)you are not my people, and I am not your God.”^[b]

^10 [c] Yet ^(C)the number of the children of Israel shall be ^(D)like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. ^(E)And ^(F)in the place where it was said to them, ^(G)“You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, ^(H)“Children^[d] of ^(I)the living God.”

²⁵ As indeed he says in Hosea,

¹³ though formerly I was a blasphemer, ^(A)persecutor, and insolent opponent. But ^(B)I received mercy ^(C)because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,

³⁰ For just as ^(A)you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,

^6 (A)But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

⁷ What then? ^(B)Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest ^(C)were hardened,

¹⁹ But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says,